Lega is far a far right populist Italian party.
Its leader (the guy in the billboard), Salvini, is, at this time, Italian minister of transportation. He is doing all sort of things to limit active and suistansble mobility, speed traps, 30 km/zones and pedonalizations.
Now, the billboard for the European election campaign.
It reads: "to protect the homes and cars of the Italians "
He is not even protecting the drivers, just the cars 😢
Another interesting billboard (also by Lega) used for some recent local election is the following:
Which reads “let’s save our cars from European eco-absurdities”
I’m italian, granted I surely haven’t voted for these backward monkeys, I’m utterly ashamed we have to be represented by these a-holes.
Nonetheless I’m not even blaming them for winning the vote, the only reason they won is because the opposition was even worse, had even less ideas and those few were as much useless or worse, and their leaders were even less charismatic, aside being catatonically and obliviously detached from the people and the people’s interests they should represent
This is basically the current international struggle. Fascist assholes are awful, but neoliberal assholes are also shit… the neoliberals keep chugging along until a country gets fed up and votes in a fascist just to give it a try because the neoliberals aren’t working. Then you get all the proud boys and neo-nazis coming out of the closet and, in many cases, the mechanisms of democracy get damaged to the point where its difficult to actually get another fair election.
This is the problem and the solution (pushing out corrupt/ineffective neoliberals in favor of actual liberal representation) is fucking hard. It’s especially broken in America where there is no reasonable way for a third party to gain ground - the liberal party needs to be torn down from the inside like the tea party did to the Republicans.
Here in Florence the ruling mayor is playing with fire. Just a few months before the election they:
- Declared the whole city area “special traffic zone” to ban all the old polluting cars, installing hundreds of cameras to automatically fine trespassers
- Created bike lanes (real lanes, not just paint a line on the street) by narrowing streets
- Spending millions to create new tram lines (and that means narrowing or closing streets)
- Installing new Speed cameras on 4 lanes roads that are set to give fines with an extremely low tolerance like 1 over the limit
- Giving the traffic police new equipment that scans the license plates and automatically fines cars with expired tax, insurance, biannual inspection
The traffic police has really got the hang on giving fines. There’s a 90% increase from past year, we’re the number one city in italy, with 200 euro of car fines per Capita! That’s insane if you calculate that even babies are included.
So… good, right? All the carbrains are pissed! “They want to take away our cars!” The elections for the new Mayor are in two months and the other populist parties are basically saying “we are going to undo all of this, cancel the tram, remove the speed cameras”
Between my circle the opinion is that the mayor went too far and the ruling party must be removed.
And all those fines that are coming just before the election aren’t going to help.
I’m an hypermiler and I drive really slow to save energy but I personally got 3 fines by driving 1 kmh over the limit on a 4 lanes road coming out from the highway. Can’t imagine the typical rage filled carbrain how many fines got over there. (Context: in Italy the traffic police is extremely slow in processing fines. They install a new Speed camera and the fines arrive 4-6 months later. People unaware of that will get dozens of fines to pay. At work I heard people complaining about getting 15 fines in the same road - that’s 3000 euro - he would definitely remember this when he’s going to vote)
The same party is doing advertising like “we want a cleaner Europe” [photo of polluting industries], or “we want a solidary Europe” [photo of migrants dying in the sea] or “we want more families” [photo of hands in front of a pride flag].
I’m scared that with a campaign like this, the populist far right party has easier life. People are scared of change and are going to vote the asshole that is saying “yes cars, no pollution limits, no migrants, no gay families”.
Since the war, here the left Always won the elections, but would pissing the carbrains, xenophobes and homophobes change the situation?
@Moonrise2473 @lgsp Too bad about the timing. If this had started right after an election the improvements would be done, and they could have locked in the fines by dropping other city taxes and making the city’s budget depend on the fines.
Exactly, the timing is completely wrong. But the mayor is like “but I promised this in 2019 and I show that I keep promises”.
In other cities before elections instead they’re fixing potholes to get votes from the drivers lol
Other posters from the same party with the slogan “Let us change Europe before Europe changes us”:
“Muslim woman”
Evil Ursula
There is another one with a person eating a cricket 🦗 against new food regulations but can’t find it rn.
What the fuck Italy
Considering the ageing population and the abstention rate among younger generations, the far right is going to rule for a couple of decades.
If I were a foreigner, I would boycott everything that comes from this cursed land.
I may not be very familiar with how the Italian Parliament works, but how many votes do “cars” get? Are they taxpayers? Do they have some kind of pull with Il Papa?
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Cut off your nose to spite your face. Own the bicycles!
